405 pages
English language
Published Nov. 20, 1987 by Grove Press.
4 stars
(2 reviews)
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures."
Subjects
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
- Young men -- Fiction.
- New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.